Can someone fill me in on The Dead Universe, Galvatron and The Darkness without simply pointing me to TfWiki, that place is no help.
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IDW's Dead Universe? And where should I start, to catch up? (spoilers)
Can someone fill me in on The Dead Universe, Galvatron and The Darkness without simply pointing me to TfWiki, that place is no help.
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What's on the Wiki is pretty much it. There's another universe were everything is dead, and a group of Transformers, including Galvatron (older than Megatron, no relation), went there and got twisted by being there and became evil. You die or go evil. (Or wear a Pretender Shell as armour to stay alive for a short period.) D'Void, IDW's equivalent of Unicron, seems to be the cause, an anti-life presence that consumed all 'life energy' in the universe, and then tried, during the Chaos story, to break through and consume the IDW universe too.Originally Posted by Verno
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So the Galvatron in there is different to the one that Unicron turned Megs into in TF:TM?
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Yes. In the IDW universe Galvatron, Scourge and Cyclonus are older Transformers (older than the regular cast) and never had anything to do with Unicron. The events of TF:TM (and the rest of the cartoon) have not and can not occur in the IDW Universe.
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The beauty of starting all over again huh?
Do you think this D-Void will end up being some kind of manifestation of Unicron that IDW is saving up for later? Or something else?
Sorry for all the questions and thanks for the info Paulbot, I'm thinking of playing catch-up with the IDW universe (I know I'm a long way behind)
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D-Void fills the role of Unicron, god that want's to destroy everything, for the IDW stories. After Heart of Darkness mini-series it looked like they were going to make it more explicit but it didn't happen.
They could still get away with Unicron appearing eventually next time they want a big epic story (likely to be a later crossover between the two new books if I was to bet).
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Honestly, answering that fully would probably be a bad idea without spoiler tags, as a lot of board members who read these in trade only aren't up to date with this storyline (it's volume 6 of the Ongoing, and volume 5 just came out fairly recently).
May be best to start a new thread elsewhere, explicitly marked as containing spoiler material, just for the courtesy of others.
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There you go, now it's its own topic, so spoil away.
(any question in the random questions topic that generates this much interest will usually be branched off into its own topic)
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Wow, I go to bed and my little questions get their own thread! It must be Christmas!
Would people recommend reading the IDW back catalogue? I'm assuming the stuff is good.
As most of you are probably aware, I've only ever been interested in BW, but as that won't see the light of day again in any official media, I figured I should branch out! and the comics seemed the most likely place. (Prime TV doesn't interest me, I watched the first few eps and wasn't hooked)
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Oh, and would people recommend going right back to the Dreamwave stuff?
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